Interesting Stuff 2008-11-03
Post categories: round up
| 13:33 UK time, Monday, 3 November 2008
I was on leave at the end of last week. As someone who has been in the middle of one of these episodes (albeit a less high profile one), everyone involved has my sympathy. Steve Bowbrick has some suggestions for how more openness might have helped, while Martin Belam thinks the BBC failed the "online Brand damage limitation test".
However according to the backstage mailing list there was some good news last week ("Matthew Postgate named BBC Controller for Research and Innovation")
People like pictures. And the graphic from Adam Hutchinson and Richard Titus' post has now been featured on blogs in French, Portugese, German and Hebrew. Y-rd says
...it completely explains my life".
George Wright's post about research on nonDRM BBC content stimulated discussion on the Backstage mailing list and a video interview and more information on Backstage itself.
And Backstage have started a logo competition.
Patrick Sinclair at BBC Radio Labs explains work on automatically linking artists and news on the rather wonderful BBC Music beta.
Farah Fahmy at BBCi Labs explains some of the thinking behind What's On being removed from Freeview.
Anthony Rose' s presentation on iPlayer at PDC is featured in this article from Techcrunch.and on this post from Marc My Words.
And, most importantly there may be a problem with mobile phones and national security...
Nick Reynolds is editor, BBC Internet blog
Comment number 1.
At 22:50 3rd Nov 2008, simon0278 wrote:It's really great to hear that patches provided by the BBC are going upstream into projects like Totem. This is something I wouldn't have dreamed about hearing a couple of years ago.. Keep up the good work on keeping the iPlayer supported on the Linux desktop.
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